Given the book "The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory", by John Seabrook, I would posit that the father has a much higher probability of being more accurate, in that 'all pop music sounds the same', or certainly -much- pop music sounds the same, no? -----Original Message----- From: howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Mon, Jul 15, 2019 10:38 am Subject: [LUTE] All music (was Siena Manuscript No. 17 - Ricercar) On 13.07.19 19:30, John Mardinly wrote: > My teenage daughter says all classical music sounds the same. I tell > her all pop music sounds the same. Who is right? Ooh, easy one: You're both wrong. You're both making sweeping categorical statements based on insufficient information. You, Ph.D., in particular, should know better than to characterize "all pop music" without first listening to all pop music. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
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